Recently Image Metrics hosted a facial sculpting and anatomy webinar with ZBrush Workshops founder, Ryan Kingslien. Ryan is one of the industry’s most sought after artists and it was a pleasure to hear his take on how to tackle learning facial anatomy. The video is hosted/presented by Ryan Kingslien and Jay Grenier. Check out the video below.
Something fun to watch, and play “The Mario Bros” with live Violin playback!
Simple straight forward, cartoony, funny rig demo of a Banknotes character; yes a Dollor Bill Character by Wesley Schneider. Totally creative and stylized character design. Worth watching it!
A little WIP snapshot for TEJO, the character from the Muscle Workshop. This beast is coming to life soOn 😉
A video demo by Jonas Avrin (@Jawabiscuit) featuring the Kaylee rig which is provided by Alex Curtis, director of Hephaestus, soon to be released. It shows techniques provided by Autodesk’s Animator Friendly Rigging series by Jason Schleifer. Special recognition goes to Image Metrics’ proprietary facial rigging tools for the automatic setup of the control rig for the face! I worked on the goggles and hair setup. Many thanks to Jonas for the mention 🙂
Check out this cool site with tons of free animation reference libraries http://www.referencereference.com/. Title says it all!
CGSociety talked to the leads at Weta Digital about their work on ‘The Rise of the Planet of the Apes’. VFX Supervisor Chris White gave some brilliant insights about the creative workflow.
Probably the greatest speech ever by Charlie Chaplin presented with a blend of visual documentary. The speech is a part from one of Chaplin’s greatest movie ever “The Great Dictator” where he played a dual role of Hitler as “Hynkel” and a poor barber!
Yet another very beautiful and neat rigging reel for a lovely character design. Alex is a self taught rigger and he mentioned in his comments that it took about a month of his free time to create this rig! I really enjoyed how he have setup-ed simple looking, flexible finger and foot controllers. The real neat job was done on the facial with Osipa style joystick controller UI and a layered secondary on mesh “sticky controllers”. Nice job … worth a watch 🙂
Here is a 360 degree modeling turntable video of “Tejo”, the muscular creature for my Muscle Setup workshop! I had to work out a nice topology and edge flow maintaining the muscular anatomical volume of the character. Let’s see what this beast is up to with all those brute muscle! Gonna be FUN 😉